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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2010
      July 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511735240
      9780521574693
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511735240
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      Dimensions:
      (246 x 189 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.398kg, 220 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Archaeological Theory and Methods, Archaeology: General Interest, Archaeology
      Series:
      New Directions in Archaeology
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    Subjects:
    Archaeological Theory and Methods, Archaeology: General Interest, Archaeology
    Series:
    New Directions in Archaeology
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    All archaeological sites have been abandoned, but people abandoned sites in many different ways, and for different reasons. What they did when leaving a settlement, structure, or activity area had a direct effect on the kind and quality of the cultural remains entering the archaeological record - for example, whether tools were removed, destroyed, or buried in the ground, and building structures dismantled or left standing. This book examines abandonment as a stage in the formation of an archaeological site, and relies on ethnoarchaelogical and archaeological data from many areas of the world - North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Near East. It documents the many complex factors surrounding abandonment both across entire regions and within settlement areas, and makes an important theoretical and methodological contribution to this area of archaeological investigation.

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    ‘[This] book makes a systematic effort to develop archaeological correlates of site and regional abandonment … What makes it stand out is the systematic attention paid to archaeological correlates in most of the ethnoarchaeological case studies that demonstrate how these ideas can be applied’.

    Source: Antiquity

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